As a relatively young global city, Vancouver can play up to its brash, breezy image. But some of its most celebrated books are rooted in harder times, as it struggled to find its place in the world, and to deal with racial tensions.
Tyler Stiem takes a closer look

The 2013 Nobel literature laureate Alice Munro talks online to the Booker prizewinning novelist Margaret Atwood about the attraction of the short story for Canadian writers during the 1950s and 60s, the problem with likable characters and how fiction can move readers to send an author hate mail